Early in September Australia commemorated two of its national symbols. September 1 was National Wattle Day, in recognition of Australia’s national floral emblem, the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha).

Nationals backbencher Pat Conaghan has proposed an amendment to the flags act to prohibit the burning or desecration of the ...

On this day, 124 years ago, the Australian flag was flown for the first time. It flew over the dome of the Exhibition Building in Melbourne — the seat of the fledgling Australian federal government — ...

Two MPs have introduced bills seeking to criminalise burning the National Flag after a protester set one alight at an ...

Two MPs want burning the Australian flag to be made illegal, arguing the act is not a 'harmless protest' and pointing to other countries that have outlawed flag burning. Nationals backbencher Pat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two bills have been introduced to criminalise damaging the burning of the national flag. Picture: NewsWire / Tertius Pickard Two ...

A miserable assortment of malcontents did their best to wreck it. This year I watched the “invasion day” drama unfold with friends holidaying from Europe who could not understand how the torching of ...

The ban would also apply to the burning of Australia’s two national Indigenous flags, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags, and be punishable by a jail term of up to two years. Independent ...